"An Amazon team member pasted a user’s coordinates, stored in the system as latitude and longitude, into Google Maps. In less than a min, the employee had jumped from a recording of a person’s Alexa command to what appeared to be an image of their house."https://t.co/83CEbZOLii

The always-on microphone remotely operated by an unregulated transnational network of poorly paid strangers that you spent money to install in your home can, in some circumstances, reveal personal information about you. https://t.co/4lMevHShSc

"An Amazon team member pasted a user’s coordinates, stored in the system as latitude and longitude, into Google Maps. In less than a min, the employee had jumped from a recording of a person’s Alexa command to what appeared to be an image of their house."https://t.co/83CEbZOLii

An https://t.co/RCeOn4lXkC Inc. team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the program. https://t.co/rTmCuirdRp

People are reacting to this with surprise & frustration, but I wonder if those rxns are because they didn’t know/think their data is used this way or know how much human intervention is part of AI, or both https://t.co/AjDs0WNxMD

When transcribing recordings, Amazon's #Alexa reviewers also have access to very personal information that identifies who the user is, including your home address, your phone number and contacts list -- with @mattmday@turnergshttps://t.co/J7GM1DTfuw